Beachy Walks and Honoring Ellie

I wents to the beach this weekend, twice!  It's one of the few places I can be off leash this time of year, giving me a chance to run.  My knee is doing so far so good, so Mr. Vet is happy and wants me to keep working out and hopes I've healed enough.

 There was a little ice, so I be careful.

 I did run in the water, but then I realized it was freakin cold!

 So I stayed further away from the water from then on.

 Hoomans keep up, geesh they are slow.

And this week we received our painting in honor of kitteh sister Ellie from Kitty & Coco's Momma.  We are absolutely thrilled with how it came out and we are just amazed at the quality and how every detail was captured.

We miss you Ellie, and we thank you Lauren for your lovely work.  Please check out Lauren's etsy shop.

Happy New Year & an Update

Hello Bloggie world!  Did you forgets about me?  Just in case here is a picture to jogs your memory.

The household is doing much betters now.  The Momma doesn't cry every times you say Ellie's name and I is feeling much better.  My knee has made huge improvements and you can barely tell i hurt myself.  This week we should get the word from the vet but I think I will be ok wifout surgery.  I put all my weight on my bad leg to do scratchies wif my good leg and I don't fall down - that is good news!  Plus i can turn around much better now.  And, my medicines are gone and I am still doing well.  Now for some more updates:

It's been really warm here but we did have a white Christmas!  And, yes I gots caught trying to do zoomies in the snow and gots in trouble.

I gots some really nice pressies for Christmas, my favorite is my squeaky chicken.

And the bestest news!  I gots to me meet my new Cousin!  

Meet Storm, a 7 year old Rottie that was adopted my my favorite Aunt D right after Thanksgiving.

You can't see but I promise her nub was a waggin on our first greeting!

I even shared my Momma wif her, isn't she adorable?

Now I've got a lot of blogging catch up to do so I apologize for not leaving comments but we are trying to read everything.  Also, I see I have to figure out what category to enter Mango Minster in.  My fingers where crossed for "Spotted dogs that sleep on the couch" but that category still hasn't been accepted.  Maybe next year.

Goodbye Ellie

Today is a sad day.  Kitteh sister Ellie unexpectedly went to the rainbow bridge while sleeping in a patch of sun on the futon.

Ellie was at best guess maybe 6 years old.  She found the hoomans at their apartment in April of 2007 on Easter Sunday.  She was starving and covered in burdock from being forced to make it on her own for a Maine winter eating out of the compost.  The neighbors down the street had moved in November and they must have left her behind, forgotten - unwanted.

She wriggled her way into everyone's heart with her broken meow and her love of laps.  If you didn't pet her she'd lightly pat your face to remind you she was there.

Ellie was the only kitteh that accepted me when I came into the family.  She was my kitteh, she never once hissed at me or swatted at me - even when I used her as a napkin.  This is us yesterday.

We almost lost Ellie last year when she couldn't eat because of her teeth, we discovered she had periodontal disease.  After two weeks of syringe feeding and dental surgery she learned to eat on her own again and was back to full heath.  Her checkup in August was perfect, what was left for her teeth were healthy.

This morning Ellie ordered her breakfast as usual, she scolded Vader for chasing her as normal, and she won the best spot in the morning sun.  That is were she went to sleep and just never woke up.

Tonight the hoomans sit with an empty lap and a broken heart.

WW Ellie & Vader

Guarding

Ellie, the Guard Kitteh.

Tucker, the Guard Dog

Wordless Wednesday

Sometimes Being a Big Dog isn't so great

For example, I have to lay on the couch....
While Vader and Ellie share Dad's lap......

Because I'm too big to fit there...................

It's not fair at all.

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all!

Love: Tucker, Vader, Patch, and Ellie

Santa Claus is coming to town

Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - written by J. Fred Coots and Haven Gillespie
You better watch out
You better not cry

Better not pout

I'm telling you why

Santa Claus is coming to town
He's making a list, And checking it twice;

Gonna find out Who's naughty

and nice.
Santa Claus is coming to town.

He sees you when you're sleeping

He knows when you're awake

He knows if you've been bad
or good
So be good for goodness sake!

O! You better watch out!

You better not cry.
Better not pout, I'm telling you why.
Santa Claus is coming to town.

Santa Claus is coming to town.

Happy Holidays from us all! (Pee S - I have no idea how that picture of me being bad got in here.... I don't do that anymores...)

'Twas the Night Before Christmas, a poem

'Twas the Night Before Christmas (or A Visit from St. Nicholas) by Clement Clarke Moore (1823)
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'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.
The children were nestled all snug in their beds,while visions of sugar plums danced in their heads.
And Mama in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap,had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap.

When out on the roof there arose such a clatter, I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter. Away to the window I flew like a flash,tore open the shutter, and threw up the sash.

The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow gave the lustre of midday to objects below,when, what to my wondering eyes should appear,but a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer.

With a little old driver, so lively and quick,I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick.More rapid than eagles, his courses they came,and he whistled and shouted and called them by name:
"Now Dasher! Now Dancer!Now, Prancer and Vixen!On, Comet! On, Cupid!On, Donner and Blitzen!To the top of the porch!To the top of the wall!Now dash away! Dash away!Dash away all!"

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky so up to the house-top the courses they flew,with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.

And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof the prancing and pawing of each little hoof. As I drew in my head and was turning around, down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound.

He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot, and his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot. A bundle of toys he had flung on his back, and he looked like a peddler just opening his pack.
His eyes--how they twinkled! His dimples, how merry! His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry! His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, and the beard on his chin was as white as the snow. The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, and the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath. He had a broad face and a little round belly,that shook when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly.
He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,and I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself.A wink of his eye and a twist of his head soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread.
He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,and filled all the stockings, then turned with a jerk.And laying his finger aside of his nose,and giving a nod, up the chimney he rose.

He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle, And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.But I heard him exclaim, 'ere he drove out of sight,
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!"

Wordless Wednesday - Ellie & Vader